[righthand]

Ente photos is one thing and there are others.

You can accomplish most of that by installing Syncthing.

But the objection is that you’re not really building anything new even if you think it’s a new idea. By your definition you’re building for yourself and not sharing…so what good are your little projects. Reading your original list it just seems like you want to build and run software without having to do any research, even if a solution already exists.

[josephg]

> But the objection is that you’re not really building anything new even if you think it’s a new idea. By your definition you’re building for yourself and not sharing…so what good are your little projects.

What an incredibly blinkered view. You think there's no value at all in making software unless your program solves a truly novel problem, and does so for millions of users?

There's so much joy that can be found in simple, disposable acts of creativity. I don't need the world to applaud when I cook an omelette, make a table out of wood or play a piece on the piano. Why would I need that from the software I make? Just because you can buy a table from IKEA doesn't mean its not fun to make one yourself. Just because someone on spotify played it better doesn't mean there's no joy in playing music.

Why would I hesitate to make my ideal photo library program, just because other programs exist? What a sad, self-limiting rule.

[righthand]

No you would hesitate because you yourself said you dont have the time. So why would you still develop it if you dont have the time to maintain or develop a project like that. You’re the one being sad and limiting unless you find a reason not to be. Sorry you had to rely on Llms to get a decent photo setup running but you also DIDNT have to reinvent the wheel to accomplish that. Waste all the time in the world that you want building single use stuff with LLMs but dont walk around like it wasn’t possible before because it required dev time then turn around and tell us you have plenty of time to screw around with an LLM which is proven to not give time savings. Im glad you found out about code generators to start projects though.

[josephg]

You seem mad at me for making fun projects with LLMs. Of course it was possible to do fun stuff before LLMs. Been there, done that! It’s just even easier now that I can rent an llm to do all the boring bits. How sick is that!

Does that make you mad? Why does other people enjoying themselves with LLMs make you mad?

[righthand]

No it doesnt make me mad, I’m just trying to point out to you why people object to your comment. As is the topic of this thread chain.

[josephg]

Liar. Your comment above is spiteful and demeaning. I suggest taking a moment to think about where that energy is coming from. It’s not coming from me.

[righthand]

Okay then good talk. I think the only person acting out is the one getting offended others are pointing out inconsistencies in your logic. No one is actually stopping you though so I’m not so sure why the aggressive attitude.

[argee]

I have everything this guy is talking about just from running Filerun (with the Nextcloud client for mirrors) and backing up to Backblaze R2. At some point developers seem to forget that other developers exist.

[josephg]

> At some point developers seem to forget that other developers exist.

At some point developers seem to forget that making stuff is fun. The fact SQLite and GCC exist doesn't mean you're banned from making a database or a C compiler.

You're allowed to make stuff just because.